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Definition of Scaphopod
1. Noun. Burrowing marine mollusk.
Group relationships: Class Scaphopoda, Scaphopoda
Specialized synonyms: Tooth Shell, Tusk Shell
Definition of Scaphopod
1. Noun. tusk shell ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scaphopod
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaphopod
Literary usage of Scaphopod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"16, pp. 129-145. Emerson, William W. 1951. A new scaphopod mollusk, ... The scaphopod
mollusks collected by the first Johnson-Smithsonian Expedition. ..."
2. The Journal of Conchology by Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1874)
"... which include i scaphopod, 32 Gastropods, 43 Pelecypods, and i Brachiopod,
whereas Mr. Reid's conchological list embraced 65 species, consisting of i ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... and 1 scaphopod ; 205 species and 13 varieties are Gastropods. Of the marine
species the author says, " Less than a half score are indigenous, of these, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... which has three additional ciliated bands but no velum (resembling the larva
of the scaphopod Dentalium) ; this banded larva ..."
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